G/LIC/N/2/ARG/28/Add.14  
13 September  2022 
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Committee on Import Licensing  Original:  Spanish  
 
  
AGREEMENT ON IMPORT LICENSING PROCEDURES  
NOTIFICATION UNDER ARTICLE 5.1 TO 5.4  
OF THE AGREEMENTi 
ARGENTINA  
Addendum  
The following notification, dated 7 September  2022, is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of Argentina.  
 
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Pursuant to Article  5 of the Agreement on Import Licensing Procedures, Argentina hereby notifies 
the adoption of Secretariat for Trade (SC) Resolution No. 1/2022, published in the Official Journal of 
the Argentine Republic on 25 August  2022, amending Resolution No. 523/2017 of the former 
Secretariat for Trade, notified in document G/LIC/N/2/ARG/28.  
(a) List of products subject to import licensing procedures  
The purpose of SC Resolution No. 1/2022 is to update the list of goods subject to automatic 
and non -automatic import licensing, and to simplify the current structure of the annexes to 
Resolution No. 523/2017 of the Secretariat for Trade and the supplementary and amending 
regulations thereto, with a view to streamlining and facilitating the ir interpretation and 
application . In this regard, in order to avoid the dispersion of regulations, Annexes  IV, V, VII, 
VIII, X, XIII and XIV are repealed in their entirety, and the range of tariff positions of the 
MERCOSUR Common Nomenclature (MCN) covered by the processing of non -automatic import 
licences  are united in a single annex (Annex II) . 
SC Resolution No. 1/2022:  
 
http://servicios.infoleg.gob.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/370000 -374999/370338/norma.htm  
The updated list of tariff headings covered by the auto matic and non -automatic import 
licensing system, including the amendments made through the Resolution notified herein, may 
be viewed in full in Annex  II to Resolution No. 523/2017, which may be consulted through this 
link: 
http://servicios.infoleg.gob.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/275000 -279999/276625/texact.htm  
(b) Contact information on eligibility  
Undersecretariat for Foreign Trade Policy and Management, un der the Ministry of the 
Economy.  
Julio A. R oca 651, Ciudad Autón oma de Buenos Aires, Argentina.  G/LIC/N/2/ARG/28/Add.14  
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  (c) Administrative body(ies) for submission of application  
The administrative body for submission of applications is the Undersecretariat for Trade Policy 
and M anagement, attached to the Secretariat for Trade, under the Ministry of the Economy.  
Importers submitting applications for automatic import licences are required to use the 
Comprehensive Import Monitoring System1, as approved by Joint General Resolution No. 
4.185 -E/2018 and the supplementary and amending regulations thereto of the Federal Public 
Revenue Administration and the Secretariat for Trade (Official Journal of 8 January 2 018)2 
and to provide the informatio n specified in Annex I to former Secretariat for Trade Resolution 
No. 523/2017 and the supplementary and amending regulations thereto.  
In addition to meeting the indicated requirement for automatic licences, interested parties 
submitting applications for n on-automatic import licences must be enrolled on the register 
created under former Ministry of Production Resolution No. 442 (Official Journal of 9  
September  2016)3 and the supplementary and amending regulations thereto and enter into 
the system, for the tariff headings of the goods to be imported, the information indicated in 
Annex II(2) to former Secretariat for Trade Resolution No. 523/2017 and the supplementary 
and amending regulations thereto.  
This information can be found in the updated text of Resol ution No. 523/2017 available at:  
http://servicios.infoleg.gob.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/275000 -279999/276625/texact.htm  
In the event that the requirem ents described above are not duly met within 10 working days 
of registering the import licence request, the procedure will automatically be cancelled and its 
status reflected in the system as "Baja Art. 4" ("Article 4 cancellation").  
For goods subject to n on-automatic import licensing, the implementing authority may require 
the importer to provide any information and/or additional documents listed in Annex  III to 
Resolution No. 523/2017 and the supplementary and amending regulations thereto . It may 
also req uest the intervention of competent technical bodies, use background information from 
its own sources or those of third parties, and require, should it be deemed necessary, 
clarifications . This information must be submitted within the time limits and condit ions laid 
down in Article 6 of Resolution No. 523/2017 and its amending regulations.  
Two explanatory manuals containing detailed and updated information on import licensing 
procedures can be found at:  
https://www.argentina.gob.ar/comprobar -licencias -automaticas -para-importaciones . 
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i "Members which institute licensing procedures or changes in these procedures shall notify the 
Committee of such within 60 days of publication." (Art. 5.1).  
 
1 Further information is available at: http://www.afip.gob.ar/simi . 
2 The Resolution is available for consultation at: 
http://servicios.infoleg.gob.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/305000 -309999/305596/texact.htm . 
3 The Resolution is available for consultation at: 
http://servicios.infoleg.gob.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/265000 -269999/265302/norma.htm .